Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political a...ffiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic background, marital status, economic level, convenience, or previous experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The process of education in the oldest profession in the world is like any other educational process, in that it requires time and... effort and patience; it can only be acquired by taking one step at a time, though the steps become accelerated after the first few.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the two centuries that have passed since 1776, millions upon millions of Americans have worked and taken up arms, when necessar...y, to make [the American] dream a reality. We can be proud of what they have accomplished. Today, we are the world's oldest republic. We are at peace. Our nation and our way of life endure. And we are free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was a closet pacifier advocate. So were most of my friends. Unknown to our mothers, we owned thirty or forty of those little suc...kers that were placed strategically around the house so a cry could be silenced in less than thirty seconds. Even though bottles were boiled, rooms disinfected, and germs fought one on one, no one seemed to care where the pacifier had been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Mother" has always been a generic term synonymous with love, devotion, and sacrifice. There's always been something mystical and ...reverent about them. They're the Walter Cronkites of the human race . . . infallible, virtuous, without flaws and conceived without original sin, with no room for ambivalence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With girls, everything looks great on the surface. But beware of drawers that won't open. They contain a three-month supply of dir...ty underwear, unwashed hose, and rubber bands with blobs of hair in them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking ...for it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mothers are not the nameless, faceless stereotypes who appear once a year on a greeting card with their virtues set to prose, but ...women who have been dealt a hand for life and play each card one at a time the best way they know how. No mother is all good or all bad, all laughing or all serious, all loving or all angry. Ambivalence rushes through their veins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With boys you always know where you stand. Right in the path of a hurricane. It's all there. The fruit flies hovering over their w...aste can, the hamster trying to escape to cleaner air, the bedrooms decorated in Early Bus Station Restroom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always felt that too much time was given before the birth, which is spent learning things like how to breathe in and out wi...th your husband (I had my baby when they gave you a shot in the hip and you didn't wake up until the kid was ready to start school), and not enough time given to how to mother after the baby is born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »